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Gabriel Garcia Marquez I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

John Ratzenberger On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Laurette Taylor Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Erma Bombeck Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Joseph Smith, Jr. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Olivia Thirlby I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the w...

Josie Maran Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Melissa Leo My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

Jacques Maritain The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Desmond Tutu Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Barbara de Angelis Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Joan D. Vinge These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Mother Teresa Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Claude Monet I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Susan Orlean I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.